QuestCinq.com After his re-election, President Obama asked Hillary Rodham Clinton to stay on as secretary of State for another year, but she said no, according to a forthcoming book. In HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, authors Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen write that Obama posed the question to Clinton during a flight in Asia on Nov. 19, 2012. The book is scheduled to be released in February. In an excerpt, Allen and Parnes write: “Hillary had long since told Obama that she didn’t plan to stick around for his second term. But now, after winning re-election,…

QuestCinq.com NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who was granted asylum in Moscow in August, has landed a technical support job on one of Russia’s largest websites, but its identity, for now, is strictly hush-hush, according to his lawyer. “Edward starts working from November 1. He will be part of the support team of one of the largest Russian websites. I can’t say the name of the website now for security reasons,” Anatoly Kucherena tells RIA Novosti. This summer, Pavel Durov, founder of VK — a Russian version of Facebook — publicly invited Snowden to join his team. “Currently Edward tries to…

QuestCinq.com University of California President Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she is devoting $5 million to provide special counseling and financial aid for students living in the U.S. illegally, a move aimed at disarming critics who worried the former Secretary of Homeland Security and Arizona governor would be hostile to the small but vocal student population. Napolitano announced the initiative in San Francisco during her first public address since she became head of the 10-campus university system a month ago. “Let me be clear. UC welcomes all students who qualify academically, whether they are documented or undocumented,” she told an audience…

QuestCinq.com – Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during a clash in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the soldiers had been on an overnight raid in a village near the city of Jenin, when about 50 Palestinians started hurling rocks at them. Ahmed Imad Yusef, 21, was shot in the chest during the confrontation, medical workers said. Locals said Yusef was not a militant and worked in a vegetable market. The military spokeswoman said reports of a Palestinian casualty were being investigated. Violence has been on the rise…